News archive - Results of the conference "Challenge Social Innovation", a short summary by Josef Hochgerner + video: "Schumpeter adopts Social Innovation"

The most obvious and immediate success of the conference was to form and make visible a community of some 350 scholars and experts on social innovation, representing more than 50 countries from around the globe. This made up the largest conference concerning scientific analysis and research on social innovation ever since the topic attained public recognition during the past years.

The composition of the audience alongside with debates initiated and stimulated depicted a true mapping of the current state of the art pertaining to research on social innovation: There were the relatively small groups of more or less established researchers from Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) dealing with the subject, a great number of ‘newcomers’, and some of the most relevant players in the wider practice arrays of social innovation. CSI 2011 was the expected high level scientific conference reaching out to practitioners of social innovation in the private, public, and civil society sectors.

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Entry created by Ines Marinkovic on September 29, 2011
Modified on September 29, 2011